Baby shrimp? Or something else?

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Hello all. I'm back with another question. I wasn't sure where to post this. I'm new to shrimp keeping. So far things are going really well. Had my shrimp for 6 or 7 weeks and my population has almost doubled. I have 3 sets of fairly new baby's all three different sizes of tiny to tiny tiny. I have a large growth of moss right in the middle of the tank. Today I saw this little white thing swimming around the water colum just above the moss. It was almost similar in size to some of my shrimplets. A little smaller. I couldn't make out any discernable features like a head or tail. My shrimplets do swim a bit. When they do it usually looks really graceful. This was a small white spec that was swimming really iradicatly. Jerking, fast movements in this direction then that direction. It moved quite quickly.

Am I being paranoid? Could it be a parasite? Sound familiar to any one. All my plants are from tropica. Except when I purchased the shrimp a piece of hornwort was put in the bag with them and foolishly I put it in the tank.

 

[tlindsey]

Jerking, fast movements in this direction then that direction. It moved quite quickly.

Possibly some type of coepod.

 

[Deadeye]

Amphipod perhaps?

 

[Fishyboy🐟🐟🐟]

Hello all. I'm back with another question. I wasn't sure where to post this. I'm new to shrimp keeping. So far things are going really well. Had my shrimp for 6 or 7 weeks and my population has almost doubled. I have 3 sets of fairly new baby's all three different sizes of tiny to tiny tiny. I have a large growth of moss right in the middle of the tank. Today I saw this little white thing swimming around the water colum just above the moss. It was almost similar in size to some of my shrimplets. A little smaller. I couldn't make out any discernable features like a head or tail. My shrimplets do swim a bit. When they do it usually looks really graceful. This was a small white spec that was swimming really iradicatly. Jerking, fast movements in this direction then that direction. It moved quite quickly.

Am I being paranoid? Could it be a parasite? Sound familiar to any one. All my plants are from tropica. Except when I purchased the shrimp a piece of hornwort was put in the bag with them and foolishly I put it in the tank.

Pics?

 

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I would love to get a picture of it but it was 1 to two mm at most. Had it not been actively swimming with purpose and against the flow at times I wouldn't have even looked at it. It was moving between the moss and the floating hornwort. Of you picture a grain of white sand moving back and forth through the direction of flow you get a fairly good idea. I googled coepod, could be.

 

[Deadeye]

Daphnia maybe?

 

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I turned off the filter and noticed that a fair few of them are swimming around. I sucked some out with a turkey baster, put them in a petri dish and looked with a magnifying glass. I could make out a basic shape. The are about the size of a pin head. They kind of resemble this

 

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From what iv read it sounds like they can be a positive addition to the tank depending on the species of copepod. Iv been feeding more Bacter AE recently because Iv just had a bunch of new shrimplets. It might make sense that the copepods might be feeding on the Bacter AE aswell and thus the sudden increase in them.

Makes sense right?

 

[Deadeye]

Sounds like copepods if they look like what’s in the picture - good guys

 

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Thanks everyone for helping me to figure this one out! Hopefully my shrimplets will feed on them!